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The Wikipedia Library: June/July Books and Bytes Newsletter and Final Report

by Jake Orlowitz

Hello all, The June/July double-issue of our Books & Bytes Newsletter is out: < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Library/Newsletter/Ju… > You can also catch up on the high level happenings from the past year of grant-work in our schnazzy final report: < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/The_Wikipedia_Library/Renewal/Fi… > Long story short: 2000 editors received 3000 accounts individually worth over a million dollars. We hope all of you attending Wikimania will drop by the talk, "The Future of Libraries and Wikipedia" < https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/The_Future_of_Librarie… > And you can stay around after the Wikimania talk for our first ever global Wikipedia Library Meetup. <https://plus.google.com/events/ct52hv6rnk0g1mu9c3pdoroee98> Hope you're all well and we're looking forward to lots of more great work with Wikipedia and Libraries! Jake, Sadads, The Interior, and the rest of the Wikipeidia Library Team

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New free accounts available through The Wikipedia Library

by Jake Orlowitz

Hi All, The Wikipedia Library has new free signups available: *American newspaper database Newspapers.com <http://enwp.org/WP:Newspapers.com> *British genealogical database FindMyPast.com <http://enwp.org/WP:FindMyPast> *Religion and women writers collections at Past Masters <http://enwp.org/WP:Past_Masters> *Several large archival collections from Adam Matthew <http://enwp.org/WP:Adam_Matthew> Medical editors can sign up for BMJ and Cochrane. <http://enwp.org/WP:BMJ> <http://enwp.org/WP:COCHRANE> Accounts are still available for JSTOR, British Newspaper Archives, Questia, and HighBeam. Sign up! <http://enwp.org/WP:JSTOR> <http://enwp.org/WP:BNA> <http://enwp.org/WP:QUESTIA> <http://enwp.org/WP:HighBeam> Note that signups are happening on English Wikipedia until you have journals set up on your local Wikipedia library branch. Don't have a local Wikipedia Library branch?? Contact me to get started setting one up! Please help share this news at your local community discussion or noticeboard :) Thanks and cheers, Jake Orlowitz (Ocaasi) jorlowitz(a)gmail.com

9 years, 9 months

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